If you're not going to use the domain yourself, you have no moral right to sell it on for private profit.
Try and remember that the net succeeded largely thanks to the principle of co-operation.
What have you got to lose by just releasing it?
Alternatively, if you feel you must flog it, be sure to give at least a sizeable proportion the cash to the EFF or some similarly worthy online cause... the legal costs of that poor DVD-hacking kid in Norway(?) spring to mind.
My colleague here was suspicious about the Win32 GUI client's efficiency so he hacked into it and disabled a single call to the SetPixel API.
This meant you lost the 3D graph at the bottom but he measured a *70%* performance improvement from this tiny hack alone. The damn thing spends most of it's crunch time drawing a pretty picture!
He wrote to SETI@Home about the poor performance but never got so much as an acknowledgement. I thought this was a bit rude so stopped running it after that.
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If you're not going to use the domain yourself, you have no moral right to sell it on for private profit.
Try and remember that the net succeeded largely thanks to the principle of co-operation.
What have you got to lose by just releasing it?
Alternatively, if you feel you must flog it, be sure to give at least a sizeable proportion the cash to the EFF or some similarly worthy online cause... the legal costs of that poor DVD-hacking kid in Norway(?) spring to mind.
-- R.
My colleague here was suspicious about the Win32 GUI client's efficiency so he hacked into it and disabled a single call to the SetPixel API.
This meant you lost the 3D graph at the bottom but he measured a *70%* performance improvement from this tiny hack alone. The damn thing spends most of it's crunch time drawing a pretty picture!
He wrote to SETI@Home about the poor performance but never got so much as an acknowledgement. I thought this was a bit rude so stopped running it after that.
-- R.
Thought this article might interest you.
Check out the links it has to follow-up news and other comments on BT's appalling monopolistic practices.
-- R.